NEW: International Journal of Digital Libraries

================================================== International Journal of Digital Libraries (JODL) Springer Verlag Editors-in-Chief Nabil R. Adam Yelena Yesha Rutgers University CIMIC UMBC/NASA CESDIS Newark, NJ 07102 Baltimore, MD 21228 adam@adam.rutgers.edu yeyesha@cs.umbc.edu (201) 648-5239 (410) 455-3542 Advisory Board Al Aho, Columbia Univ. Dan Atkins, Univ. of Michigan Milton Halem, GSFC-NASA Don Tiedemann, AT&T Jim Flanagan, Rutgers University Editorial Board S. Abiteboul, Stanford University P. Aigrain, Universite Paul Sabatier, France P. Buneman, University of Pennsylvania D. Choy, IBM Almaden Research Center U. Dayal, HP R. Jain, UC-San Diego P. Kanellakis, Brown University D. Maier, Oregon Graduate Institute A. McCray, The National Library of Medicine A. Mendelzon, University of Toronto, Canada S. Naqvi, Bellcore E. Neuhold, GMD-IPSI, Germany C. Pu, Oregon Graduate Institute E.A. Rundensteiner, University of Michigan J. Slonim, IBM Centre for Advanced Studies, Canada T. Smith, UC-Santa Barbara S. Sugimoto, Univ. of Lib. Info. Sc., Japan H. Wactlar, Carnegie Mellon University SCOPE AND THEME Recent phenomenal growth in networking technology has fueled the appetite of consumers for various types of information and global interconnectivity. Networks have made it possible to interact and collaborate with our peers and enhance our productivity tremendously to a point where such interactions are now considered essential to our daily activities. Commercial Internet usage is growing at a very fast pace. Current trends in business include global integration, and pressures to compete and collaborate with other companies on a domestic and global scale. The hunger for information has prompted wide-scale acquisition and production of digital information (content). Digital content is infinitely malleable and globally deliverable across networks. As more traditional content such as books, magazines, and popular fiction becomes digitized, the laity will also become users of electronic information in addition to researchers, educators and business people. Anticipation of these trends and technological advances has resulted in the emerging notion of Digital Libraries. A digital library may be viewed as electronic collections of digital objects that cover a wide range of interests such as art exhibits, music, medical records and images, video, books, product literature, newspapers, and companies' brochures and catalogs. These collections are to be linked together by a world-wide network and made available electronically to the public in all media such as voice, video, images, and text. Publishers and other content providers have shown strong interest in participating in such ventures. Government agencies such as NASA have shown interest in providing their content to wider sections of the public. Many proposals are being investigated for Electronic Commerce based on Digital Libraries. AIMS The aim of the journal is to advance the theory and practice of acquisition, definition, organization, management and dissemination of digital information via global networking. In particular, the journal will emphasize technical issues in digital information production, management and use, issues in high-speed networks and connectivity, inter-operability, and seamless integration of information, people, profiles, tasks and needs, security and privacy of individuals and business transactions and effective business processes in the Information Age. The journal seeks high quality research papers that present original theoretical results, algorithms, or approaches, as well as empirical and experimental studies related to the following areas: Agent technology for information filtering, location and dissemination; targeted information delivery systems; personal information delivery and filtering, discovery of new information and sources of new information. Acquisition of digital information; authoring environments for digital objects; digitization of traditional content. Security and privacy, digital timestamping, digital signatures, digital watermarks, notarization and authentication systems. Information organization, storage and management, archival of information, subscription management and issues in recency of information. Interoperability of different digital objects, multimodal presentations, cross-platform interoperability. Information navigation, intelligent surfing and browsing, automatic browsing index creation, resource discovery through opinion indexing, search by content, semantic searching, smart indexing and search technology. User interfaces for digital objects, design of user interfaces for universal access, multimedia user interfaces, interfaces for handicapped users, adaptive user interfaces. Electronic commerce, virtual banking, electronic financial transactions. Economics of Digital Libraries, intellectual property issues, billing systems, universal access and tariffs. The journal will be published quarterly, with each issue consisting of approximately 80 pages in two-column format. The first issue will appear in Summer 1996. In addition, once a year a special issue focusing on emerging information technologies will be published. SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS Electronic submission is encouraged to speed up the process (for details please send email to dlib@adam.rutgers.edu). For hard copy submission, please mail five copies to: Prof. Nabil R. Adam Rutgers University CIMIC Newark, NJ 07102 adam@adam.rutgers.edu (201) 648-5239 Once a paper has been accepted, its abstract will be posted on the internet together with its expected publication date. Accepted papers may appear in electronic form once the copyright issue has been resolved. SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS Personal and institutional subscriptions will be available at a specially reduced rate. For related information, please contact A. Hofmann, springer Verlag, Email: hofmann@springer.de. Springer Verlag GmbH Co. KG, Tiergarten strasse 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, Germany. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Elke A. Rundensteiner | Elect. Engineering & Computer Science Dep. Assistant Professor | Software Systems Research Laboratory rundenst@eecs.umich.edu | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor